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| UpdatedAn historical documentary featuring the Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will shed light on a relatively unknown aspect of Australia's colonisation where Aboriginal people were stolen, stripped and exhibited as attractions in a human zoo.
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A service that reunites families affected by Australia's forced removal policies is closing its Mount Isa branch, the only office located in western Queensland.
Topics: aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, stolen-generations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedTasmania's Governor again enters political debate, calling for a discussion about the date for Australia Day and saying she understands the feelings of Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, community-and-society, australia-day, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedA police officer is injured and a man charged after clashes between police and protesters at an Invasion Day march through inner-city Sydney.
Topics: australia-day, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, hobart-7000, brisbane-4000, alice-springs-0870
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A picture posted on social media showing a pile of decapitated goannas prompts claims of cruelty and calls for Indigenous hunters to respect native animals.
Topics: indigenous-culture, animal-welfare, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, food-and-cooking, aboriginal, broome-6725, wa
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| UpdatedMore than a dozen family members of an Aboriginal teenager who died almost 30 years ago protest outside Tamworth police station.
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government remains tight-lipped about whether it will expand the use of a cashless welfare card, amid more reports of people dodging the trial scheme and the restrictions it imposes.
Topics: welfare, federal-government, local-government, aboriginal, alcohol, broome-6725, wyndham-6740, kununurra-6743, ceduna-5690, port-hedland-6721
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| UpdatedPilbara MP Brendon Grylls throws his support behind a bid to make Port Hedland the next trial site for the cashless welfare card, just days after police complained about a spike in alcohol-fuelled violence.
Topics: welfare, federal---state-issues, federal-government, states-and-territories, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, alcohol, port-hedland-6721, ceduna-5690, wyndham-6740, kununurra-6743, south-hedland-6722, wa
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| UpdatedA first-time playwright's story based on his Tasmanian family's annual mutton-bird harvest is about to open on the Sydney Opera House stage.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, theatre, aboriginal, indigenous-culture, flinders-island-7255
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| UpdatedA renowned Aboriginal writer and historian will work with volunteers to process kangaroo grass into flour to prove the commercial value of native Australian crops.
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Australia's first Aboriginal grower group has been officially established by DAFWA.
Topics: aboriginal, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, vegetables, land-management, land-rights, native-title, moore-river-national-park-6503, esperance-6450, albany-6330, bunbury-6230, perth-6000
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| Updated"Unscrupulous" art dealers take particular advantage of Aboriginal artists from remote areas of the Northern Territory over the holidays, tricking them into dodgy deals, an Alice Springs gallery owner says.
Topics: contemporary-art, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, library-museum-and-gallery, alice-springs-0870, nt
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Over 500 Aboriginal people have met in Narooma to approve the submission of a native title claim covering 14,000 square kilometres of the south-east of New South Wales coast.
Topics: aboriginal, land-rights, narooma-2546
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Some of Australia's oldest and most precious didgeridoos are producing their distinctive music once again after being carefully restored by the Yolgnu people and the South Australian Museum.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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NSW Family and Community Services Minister Brad Hazzard says a third of the 20,000 children in care across the state are Aboriginal.
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A new project in maternity units in northern New South Wales aims to make Indigenous families feel more welcome in hospitals.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, womens-health, family-and-children, family, medical-history, lismore-2480, tweed-heads-2485, grafton-2460, murwillumbah-2484, byron-bay-2481